A new year brings new cheer and new features over at Kashless.org.
The Krew has been busy beavers over the month adding stuff like:
- Improved Offer experience. You can now make offers on ALL items listed as well as offer multiple times/places to meet and to pay for postage for an item.
- Amped up Saved Searches. You can now receive results on the web, in email or SMS immediately to your phone.
- Improved geocoding. (and an estimate of how far something is from you)
- Flagging of inappropriate items. Power to the people!
- Better sync of listings. You will get far fewer “listing expired or deleted” messages.
- Lots of updates at \home including more people talking on \talk.
- New “Feedback” widget in the upper left of the screen; this jets your feedback directly to the Krew!
Of course if you missed Martin Snowboarding to work or Danielle’s post about our holiday party, check those out.
The Krew is busy working on Alpha 2 which will add the ability to post your own stuff, we expect to have that done around early Feb.
As always keep your browser pointed to the blog or Twitter for ongoing updates.
Thanks for your help so far, and let us know how we are doing!
Martin and the Krew
thanks Earth911.
As the holidays draw near and the economic outlook remains bleak, people are warming to the idea of re-gifting this year, according to a recent study by eBay.
Of the people surveyed, 54 percent of adults who have resold gifts online in the past are planning on doing so this year, up 9 percent from 2007.
Of U.S. adults who receive gifts during the holidays:
- 83 percent receive unwanted items
- 46 percent of those adults resell or re-gift
- 64 percent of adults feel that re-gifting or reselling gifts is more socially acceptable now than it was several years ago
“We’re seeing the trend in re-gifting and reselling unwanted presents becoming more commonplace in this economic climate,” said Marsha Collier, author of “Santa Shops on eBay” and “eBay for Dummies.”
According to eBay’s survey, the most popular items adults would re-gift include:
- Wine, champagne or spirits (21 percent)
- Trinkets or collectibles (21 percent)
- Beauty or bath products (21 percent)
- DVDs, CDs or books (16 percent)
- Electronics/appliances (14 percent)
- Fruitcake (14 percent)
Gaining in Popularity
Re-gift tag available at Regiftable.com
Not only is re-gifting perceived as an economical choice, but many also see it as a “green” alternative to wasting unwanted presents. According to the survey, 73 percent of adults “view re-gifting or reselling as a form of recycling, up from 69 percent.” And while some may perceive re-gifting as a negative, one-third of those surveyed said they would rather receive a gift that they could re-gift or resell than not receive a gift at all.
Of those adults who have re-gifted, their top reasons for doing so included:
- The item was a better match for someone else (68 percent)
- They didn’t think they would use the item (66 percent)
- It wasn’t their taste (61 percent)
If you are really looking to get in the “Re-gifting” holiday spirit, Regiftable.com is hosting National Regifting Day on December 18. They even have a customizable re-gifting tag you can print up for all your “green” re-gifts.
Most of you have probably seen it, but if not, you must click over to CBS RIGHT NOW and watch the 60 minutes story on toxic e-Waste. Hundreds of thousands of computers and hundreds of millions of cell phones are “outdated” each year. Where do they go? Consumers are getting more concerned about this question and land-fills are actively trying to keep that stuff out of their dumps, but are these systems working? It seems that there are still plenty of “recyclers” who just want to make a buck.
With Kashless, hopefully these last year models can go to someone who actually uses them for a bit longer. One of the best ways to keep things out of the landfill is to keep using them.
Have been reading Earth911 quit a bit lately. “making every day Earth Day” is a good goal. They have some very useful directories and resources for recycling all over the place. Their editors do a good job as well with current events. Their coverage of the issues related to resource overuse and improper recycling leads us to believe in the ReUse power of the Kashless system even more.
Give that TV to someone who will use it instead of giving it to a “e-waste” recycler who will probably sell it to China.
Thanks Earth911 for the pointer. If you can’t “recommerce” your old phone thorough Kashless.org, go to the post office and pick up one of the free mailers to send it to a recycler. Very cool program.
Conference room table and chairs!
Tres and John enjoy the new laptops (not free :( and new desk/chair (free)
would you call this a “hutch?”
chairs. Need a little tightening up, but ok otherwise.
What a cold day in Seattle. Snow this weekend. It is still around. Not enough to cancel school or work though. Martin and John in the office. Tres out sickey and Jennifer in Mexico (lucky girl)!
Don’t forget cocktails this Friday.
in the Seattle 2.0 start-up ranking for traffic. This is squarely in the middle of the 300+ start-up list. Since we have not even launched our product and the traffic from our alpha site is not counted, I would say that is a pretty good start.
Stuart and Martin drink nice espresso from his new machine at the first Kashless, Inc. board meeting. Very relaxing!
And celebrate our new office. If you are in Seattle, stop by, meet the team, and have some of the free beer we found on Kashless Alpha (no kidding)
details here: http://www.pingg.com/rsvp/awqssvmx67z8ai86s
I landed some FREE office furniture Monday using Kashless Alpha!
Nick and Eric below: Two buddies I had to bribe to load the Uhaul for me Monday night.
We dropped it off in the office this morning...
Friday I picked up the key to our new office space on West Roy Street… Check out the pics below! Improvements begin this week and we plan to move in shortly… Now I just gotta find the office furniture!
Me with the key…
Front of office…
Discussing paint…
The back room where the magic will happen…
and their widget. Pretty cool for job seekers
They need to add more workflow for the employer to make it useful though.
Kijiji recently commissioned a study to figure out if American’s had stuff lying around the house they didn’t use (duh) and what it might be worth (that was more interesting).
Now I have a second observation. What level of cash is your cut-off for “not worth my time”? For me it is < $100. Anything for which I will receive less than $100 it is not worth my time to deal with posting, offers, shipping, etc. Just not worth it. The fourth column that would be interesting there is the tax receipt value. I would bet you that the tax benefit of donating say a Video Game console is greater than $4.
Pics of the gang working in Martin’s home office on Tuesday…
Eric and Troy doing what they do best…
mr. ceo joining in on the fun
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